21 Aug 1944
When Strangers Marry
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Awake and Sing!
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
Top Billed Cast
Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod
Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber
Felicia Farr Hennie
Leo Fuchs Jacob
Robert Lipton Ralph Berger
John Myhers Schlosser
Ruth Storey Bessie Berger
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